Please help me!

[binka_nugget]

Yep it's very confusing. It's totally common for people to mistake shelties as collies, especially in pics. Shelties along with collies developed from the border collie so there is a slight resemblence.

[Mich]

Yes, but if you see the 3 in real life, then there is no mistaking either of them, hey? I used to live across the road from a lady who had 3 shelties, and she used their hair to weave. She had jumpers, and beanies, and mittens and scarfs....you name it she did it. I always wondered if she got caught in the rain, would she smell like a wet dog? Ha Ha Ha!! Just joking, as I have heard of people using Poodle hair to weave also...Oh, she made socks as well.

[binka_nugget]

oh yea! I've saw a show with a lady who used her dogs hair to make sweaters and stuff with it. I thought that it would be kinda gross...but it's like a personal souvenir from your loved one. Ohh I want a border collie so badly..along with a collie...my other 2 favourite breeds...ack

[Mich]

What a family you would have then? Think of the grooming? Hey you could get your own loom set up as well, if you had all 3? Think of the miles you would have to walk each day for the dogs? and the food bills, and vet bills, Oh!! don't think. I had 2 poodles and a Bedlington once, and that was heavy going, with walking each day, twice a day, feeding, picking up 3 lots of droppings every day..........I'm not saying I didn't enjoy them, as I loved them with all my heart. But you got to think before you really get 3 dogs, especially with long coats.

[binka_nugget]

Oh I highly doubt I'll have all three at one time. At least, not until I move to a bigger place with more land. The grooming I don't mind, I obsess over it with kai. I've always wanted a large area of land and to raise sheep, ducks and maybe even some more animals but mainly things the dogs could herd. I want so many herding dogs and I thought it would be a perfect enviroment for the dogs but...it's a dream that I don't think will come true in my lifetime. I know that I will get a BC for sure...I'm not too sure if I'll have it at the same time as kai though..maybe wait 20 years.

[Mich]

What lovely plans you have for your life. Not that I give advice, ....but binka_nugget, don't wait till you are too old to enjoy it. IF this is what you want in life, then do your utmost to make it happen. I don't know how old you are.....NOR do I want to know. !!!!!!! If you can make this become a reality, with your dogs on a farm then save, plan for it and by golly ..Do It !!!

You only have one life, and you can't go back once you have grown old.

[binka_nugget]

thanks I will possibly do that. I plan on becoming a dog trainer though. I've always been fairly good at that and I'd love to do something that I enjoy. But then again, I'd have to wait and see. I may move to Victoria, Australia so I'm not quite sure what will happen.

[Mich]

Well, that is a big (''IF") If you move from way over there to Victoria here. There is a lot of planning there. It cost my brother an awful lot of money when they moved from England back to Sydney, and he bout his dog with him ( a Cocker Spaniel). She cost a lot and was kept for months in quarantine. I don't know if it is the same come from America to here, where the dogs are concerned, but I feel it would be.

[Mich]

Is it YOUR Kia that had a seziure? I was just looking at 'General' and I saw a place named " Kia had a seziure"

[binka_nugget]

nope. It was kia the cattledog/something else...lol can't remember but it was ramanth's poochie.

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by Mich
Yes, well it is hard to tell on a photo, but a Border Collie, is Black with a white collar and some have white on their faces. Don't think I'm smart,as I am not..... but my neice has one, that is how I know.

That is very wrong. Borders can be a number of colours. Black, red, sable, blue merle, red merle, lilac, and a combonation of these. It is very easy to be confused on this topic as black and white is more commonly seen and is thought of as the traditional colour.

[Mich]

Oh, well, you didn't mention anything wrong with your dog at the time, so I just wondered

[binka_nugget]

Originally posted by wolfsoul
That is very wrong. Borders can be a number of colours. Black, red, sable, blue merle, red merle, lilac, and a combonation of these. It is very easy to be confused on this topic as black and white is more commonly seen and is thought of as the traditional colour.

don't forget double merles! LOL I love the look

[Mich]

wow, really? that is amazing. I knew of the brown, but not of all the others. I am so happy you told me. Thank you